After two
short days we were excited to make some good time the next morning. We made it all of 15 miles before
stopping for lunch while a barge passed by. One barge ended up being three, all coming north, then the
southbounders that had been waiting took their turn. We ended up sitting on the sandbar for almost two hours
before the way was clear to continue.
After that, we made decent time, but the day was pretty far along
already. As we came around a bend
to the left, another huge sandbar, we passed a tug with no barges. He gave us a toot with is horn and came
out on deck to wave. The evening
was mild and the wind had finally died down. We made camp on a pretty little hill just at the end of the
sandbar, after a 24 ½ mile day. It
wasn’t as long as we had hoped, but we were back on the right track.
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